Barack Obama
Stany Zjednoczone - USA

Obama leading 3 percent over McCain

Barack Obama It is exactly one month before the historic Presidential election in The United States. According to Reuters poll, Barack Obama is leading by 3% over John McCain. The poll was conducted between Saturday and Monday just after the Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. The margin of error is estimated to be 2.8% and about 4% of voters still remain undecided.

Barack Obama is leading the race to the Presidential chair by 49% to 42%, between independent voters, and 51% to 42% between women. It is suspected that these two voter groups will play a key role in the outcome in this election..

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Fire
Sport

Chicago Fire tie Kansas City Wizards 1-1

Chicago Fire Blanco scores lone goal for the Fire with first half penalty kick

 

KANSAS CITY, KS (Oct. 5, 2008) – The Chicago Fire (12-9-6, 42 pts.) tied the Kansas City Wizards (8-10-9 33 pts.) 1-1 today at Community America Ballpark in front of a sellout crowd of 10,385.  Midfielder Cuauhtémoc Blanco scored in his second consecutive game, converting on a penalty kick at the close of the first half, for the Fire’s lone goal of the match.  With the tie, the Fire remain in third place in the Eastern Conference Standings, one point behind New England (43 pts.), and 11 points behind the conference leading Columbus (53 pts.).

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Bikes
Chicago

Sunday Parkways transform streets into physical activity utopia

Bikes Residents poured onto Chicago streets today to dance, play, bike, walk and run for the first Sunday Parkways event in the city. The streets transformed into parks as car traffic was limited and Chicagoans temporarily reclaimed the streets.

Participants engaged in every kind of physical activity — from running and biking along the route to yoga, salsa dancing and basketball at activity stations in Palmer Square, Humboldt Park and Garfield Park.

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Barack Obama
Stany Zjednoczone - USA

Obama campaign funding to be verified

Barack Obama The Republican Party Committee wants to verify the sources of additional campaign funding Barack Obama Presidential campaign has received. GOP claims there might be evidence of unknown campaign funding, some even coming from foreigners overseas which is illegal.

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Stany Zjednoczone - USA

700 billion dollar bailout bill signed into law

House of Representatives The House of Representatives passed the 700 billion dollar bailout bill on Friday. 263 House members voted in favor of the plan and 171 voted against it. President George W. Bush quickly signed the bill into law saying “By coming together on this legislation, we have acted boldly to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from becoming a crisis in communities across our country,”

The plan was approved by Senate earlier this week on Wednesday; it was rejected earlier on Monday by the House of Representatives mainly due to voters criticizing it.

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Photo by Polish American Congress
Stany Zjednoczone - USA

N.Y. Polish American Congress ends 2008 Voters Drive with Long Island Blitz

The Downstate N.Y. Polish American Congress sent several of its mobile registration units to four different Long Island locations to close its 2008 Voter Registration Drive by the target date of September 28th.
[caption id="attachment_27122" align="alignnone" width="580"]Photo by Polish American Congress Photo by Polish American Congress[/caption]

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University of Illinois
Chicago

UIC Receives $10 Million Gift for Polish Studies

A $10 million gift to the University of Illinois at Chicago to enhance studies in Polish history, language and literature will transform the study of that country and its culture in the city with the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw.

The donation, a bequest from the late Romuald Hejna, is the second-largest gift from an individual that UIC has ever received and the biggest single gift to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Hejna’s bequest will create two chairs in the history of Poland and one chair in Polish language and literature.

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mic
Stany Zjednoczone - USA

Vice Presidential Debate short summary

mic The debate between two candidates for Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Sarah Palin was hosted at St. Louis University on Friday. The key issues discussed during the debate were the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the economic crisis in the US.

The first part of the debate was devoted to the US financial crisis that has been the number one burden for the American people in the recent weeks.

Sarah Palin claimed that the result of such financial crisis was the greediness of Wall Street bankers as well as US Congress overlooking Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac approving home loans to people unable to prove their credit worthiness.

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Senate
Stany Zjednoczone - USA

Senate approves the 700 billion financial bailout plan

Senate The bailout plan rejected earlier this Monday, has been approved by the US Senate.  The bill passed Wednesday (local time) evening by the majority of vote 74 to 25. 40 Democratic Senators, 33 Republicans and one independent Joe Liberman have voted in favor of the bill.

The senators together, made a clear statement on national TV that the successful bill acceptance was possible thanks to the intensive hard work of both Democratic and Republican parties.

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